The Arts

i« Q_ m 2^ S= Sfàe ¿4iL· =g 1^ ?^ ¿s¿>¡G? e? The arts live continuously, and they live literally by faith: their nature and their shapes and their uses survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect: they outlive governments and creeds and societies, even the very civilizations that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away." — Katherine Anne Porter 3 ...